Rebirth of the Thousand-Faced Movie King

"Is this what you mean, Ferro, or what everyone else means?"

Yang Zhiyuan now knew that things were not as simple as imagined.

"I agree with Ferro's proposal."

Another director suddenly said.

"Count me in too."

"I think there should be more changes at Yahoo."

All of a sudden, five directors on the board of directors agreed to Ferro's proposal.

"you……"

Yang Zhiyuan opened his mouth, but then said no more.

He knew that although it was Ferro who said it, these people had already reached an agreement in private.

Moreover, based on the shareholding ratio of the capital behind the four of them, their share capital has exceeded 50%.

That is to say.

Even if Yang Zhiyuan objects again, it will have no effect.

"Meeting dismissed."

Yang Zhiyuan looked ugly.

He knows that the board of directors cannot make a decision to replace the CEO this time. He still needs to go through all shareholders' meetings to vote.

But, this is just a process.

In the future, not only will he not be able to retain his position as CEO of Yahoo, but he will also lose his position as chairman of Yahoo.

At most, he can retain a director seat on the board of directors and the so-called founder of Yahoo.

Two weeks later, the media broke the bombshell news that Yahoo founder and CEO Jerry Yang resigned from all positions at Yahoo.

Yes.

Rather than being removed through a general meeting of shareholders, it is better to resign yourself.

Although Yang Zhiyuan was very unwilling, he had no choice.

"Unexpectedly, the founder of Yahoo was also kicked out."

"There was Steve Jobs before him and Jerry Yang after him. Capital has always been bloody."

"In fact, it may not be wrong to drive away Jerry Yang. Although Jerry Yang is the founder of Yahoo, it is wise to leave Yahoo when he, the founder, cannot adapt to Yahoo's development."

The major media are talking about it.

There is a pity.

There are also those who analyze rationally.

But no matter what, Yang Zhiyuan's departure symbolizes the end of an era.

"Mr. Yang, did you really resign from all your positions at Yahoo?"

"What are you doing with it? Even if it's just a place in honor, it's of no use."

"makes sense."

Yang Zhiyuan's resignation surprised Chen Yu.

You know, if the historical process of the previous life is followed, it will take several years before Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo.

Unexpectedly, the historical process has been advanced.

Although Chen Yu and Yang Zhiyuan did not have much friendship, Chen Yu couldn't help but sigh when he received the news of Yang Zhiyuan's resignation.

"Mr. Yang, what are your plans for the future?"

"have no idea."

Yang Zhiyuan shook his head: "Maybe I want to go to China to have a look."

"China?"

"Yeah, I'm wondering what kind of charm China has that can give birth to a super company like your Huanyu Technology."

"Thank you, Mr. Yang, but the charm of China is indeed too great. You are welcome to go to China. If you come, I will definitely be your tour guide."

"Thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yu closed his eyes and thought for a while.

A few minutes later, Chen Yu sent a message to the company's internal email: "Start our global portal plan."

…

"Mr. Yang, in fact, you don't need to resign from all positions at Yahoo."

"Why, is it interesting to say these words at this time?"

"Don't get me wrong. Although I am critical of your management model, you are the founder of Yahoo and you know Yahoo best. Even if you are no longer CEO, you can also hold other positions. I think this is important for Yahoo! You are good for Yahoo!"

"No, since you have chosen a new CEO, I wish you all the best."

Jerry Yang's office at Yahoo! Jerry Yang packed up some of his personal belongings and took them away.

Now that he has resigned from his position at Yahoo, he no longer wants to stay here any longer.

Although he was very reluctant to leave Yahoo.

But what can be done?

He only owns 10% of Yahoo shares and can no longer say much in Yahoo.

Rather than do this, it would be better to resign completely.

Of course, Jerry Yang still hopes that Yahoo can develop well.

After all, he is the founder of Yahoo. Even if he leaves Yahoo, he still sends his blessings to Yahoo.

"Zhiyuan, what are your plans for the future?"

"No plans, let's go, let's start our journey."

"Travel around the world?"

"Yes."

Yang Zhiyuan looked at his wife Shan Qi: "I have always told you when I would take you to travel around the world, but it has never been possible. Today, I am finally relieved."

“You don’t want to worry about Yahoo anymore?”

"I want to take care of it too, but I can't do anything anymore. Let's go..."

Taking their luggage with them, Jerry Yang and his wife left home.

But what Yang Zhiyuan didn't know was.

When they came back, Yahoo had changed.

After Jerry Yang resigned from all positions at Yahoo, Huanyu Technology launched a brand new business.

This business is called Toutiao.

To the outside world, Huanyu Technology does not explain much about what type of business Toutiao is.

But it doesn’t matter whether it’s explained or not.

As soon as Toutiao was launched, it quickly gained the favor of many users.

As for why users like Toutiao, they actually have no idea.

Originally, they just liked to read news and watch various text and video content.

Under normal circumstances, most of them will use the Yahoo portal.

Because Yahoo Portal is the largest portal website in the world, it also contains the most complete news information.

However, when Toutiao appeared, they gradually lost interest in Yahoo.

As Toutiao said, what you care about is the headlines.

Most people like to enter portal websites. Although they like to read news, they do not read all news.

They won't read anything that doesn't interest them.

For example, some people are not interested in women, celebrities, and gossip, but portal websites must publish these contents.

Some users are very interested in cars, real estate, military, etc., but sometimes the portal website does not have much content due to layout reasons.

certainly.

This is only one aspect.

More over.

They don't have access to the portal to learn about some of the things he cares more about.

For example, he wants to learn about cars, but the car section of the portal is not very comprehensive.

Or you would say, you can go to the car category, there is more knowledge there.

But in fact, the effect of automobile websites is not very good, and some of the news content inside is mostly advertising.

But Toutiao is different from portal websites and professional automobile websites.

They adopt a model called user-generated content generation to share massive amounts of original content with users.

Of course, as a user yourself.

While they are reading, they can also participate in the production of original content.

That is to say.

Users are both content viewers and content producers.

Well, there's a problem here.

With so much content, how does it display it on the user interface?

Generally speaking, user interfaces cannot carry massive amounts of original content.

Therefore, precisely because of this, the content published by the portal website is limited, and it is impossible for it to publish unlimitedly the content it wants to report.

But this problem has actually been solved long ago.

In the Huanyu video website, Huanyu Technology uses their big data recommendation algorithm to make accurate recommendations to users.

Just like what is written in today’s headlines, what you care about is the headlines.

As for what you don’t care about, why recommend it?

Strictly speaking, Toutiao is not a portal website.

But that's okay.

In fact, with the development of the Internet now, major applications have integrated into each other and are not differentiated from each other.

Although Toutiao is a user-generated content model, it can also take into account the types of portal websites.

What Chen Yu wants most is traffic.

Yes.

In fact, Internet products ultimately compete for traffic.

Traffic is the basis of all Internet products.

Without traffic, no matter how big the innovation is, it is useless.

Toutiao, like Huanyu Short Video, does not seem to have a clear positioning.

However, with their original content and accurate data recommendations, they suddenly overturned the ecosystem created by the traditional Internet.

It maximizes exposure of all information.

It also allows all users to see the content they care about most online.

On the surface, there is no conflict between Toutiao and the portal website.

But it's not...

Global IP traffic is limited.

If you use more traffic on a certain product, you will use less traffic on other products.

This is like the battle between Douyin and WeChat.

Douyin and WeChat are not products of the same category.

However, when you keep using Douyin, your time using WeChat will become less.

However, although Toutiao performed well, Chen Yu was still not satisfied.

After the launch of Toutiao, it has indeed attracted a lot of traffic, and its growth rate is like a rocket launch.

But Chen Yu still felt that the speed was too slow.

Take the PK with Yahoo as an example.

Judging from the current growth rate of Toutiao, Chen Yu found that it is still impossible to compete with Yahoo within 3 years.

There are two reasons for this.

One is that although Yahoo has regressed, it is still a global Internet giant.

But that's not the main thing.

The most important thing is that smartphones are not popular enough.

Yes.

Although Chen Yu has launched smartphones represented by Super Pear, this touch-type smartphone has just been launched globally. Moreover, Super Pear sells high-end products, which means not everyone can own a Super Pear.

Applications like Toutiao can only achieve explosive growth after smartphones become popular.

Especially for the utilization of fragmented time, smartphones are absolutely killing all traditional Internet existences.

Fortunately, good news came from the country. A number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers finally launched their first smartphones.

For this reason, Chen Yu also returned from the United States, and he was going to take a look at the sales of these mobile phone manufacturers.

Of course, when talking about domestic mobile phone manufacturers, we have to mention foreign mobile phone giants.

Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Ericsson...etc.

After Huanyu Technology threatened them with the patent stick, several major mobile phone giants finally came to their senses.

For this reason, this time they released a new machine in China. The first task is to seize the market as much as possible.

All right.

This market grab is a market other than super pears.

no way.

These mobile phone giants have finally figured it out. They had played several games with Huanyu Technology before, and they all lost miserably.

It can even be said that none of them won.

Rather than doing this, it is better to avoid Huanyu Technology and seize other markets first.

It's just that they didn't expect it.

Although they deliberately avoid Huanyu Technology in their product lines, other mobile phone manufacturers are not easy to mess with either.

The first company to compete with Nokia was Meizu, an electronic technology company whose predecessor was an MP3 player.

Meizu released their first smartphone m8.

Compared with its previous life, Meizu m8 naturally does not have much advantages.

Even compared with Super Pear, Meizu m8 is far inferior.

However, the appearance of Meizu m8 is very delicate, and the entire design also makes m8 look very beautiful.

In this era of good-looking products, m8 is undoubtedly a success.

Next up is BBK.

BBK is not one product, but a total of three products.

BBK, oppo, vivo.

Although the three mobile phones are made by the same company, all three mobile phones have their own characteristics.

BBK integrates music and smartphones and launches music smartphones.

Oppo regards photography as its main focus and defines camera phones.

Vivo focuses on business and high-end products.

Although this business model cannot be compared with high-end and super products, its excellent hardware configuration still attracts many people.

Next is Xiaomi.

Rebus finally found his vocation, and they successfully launched the Xiaomi mobile phone.

Moreover, Rebus imitated Huanyu Technology’s routine and adopted hunger marketing.

After a frantic rush, the originally unknown Xiaomi mobile phone suddenly became famous.

However, none of the above are the most lethal.

Compared to Nokia, Sony...these world giants.

Although many domestic smartphones have some bright spots, they still cannot compete with them in terms of product strength.

but.

If the price of smartphones is reduced to an outrageous level, then there is no need to consider whether the product is powerful or not.

The previous price of Super Pear was 5,999.

This price is quite conscientious.

However, such smartphones are also very expensive for the masses.

And Nokia, Sony, Samsung... Although their smartphones are not marked with 5999, the price is at least 3000 or more.

How much was everyone's monthly salary in 2006?

A mobile phone costs 3,000 yuan, which is almost twice the salary of many people.

However, compared to the giant’s price of 3,000 yuan, the price of many domestic smartphones is around 2,000 yuan.

Even Xiaomi mobile phones are priced at 1,899.

Put this in front of consumers, would you choose 3,000 yuan or 1,899?

"Damn, Nokia and Motorola are too expensive. It seems I'd better buy a domestic smartphone."

"I also buy domestically produced smartphones. After all, Nokia is no longer synonymous with mobile phones."

"That's right. If you really want to buy a high-end product, just buy our Super Pear. Why buy Nokia?"

"If you ask me, in fact, these foreign mobile phones are almost the same as domestic mobile phones. There is no need to buy foreign mobile phones."

If people used to buy mobile phones, the first thing they considered was the brand.

So, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung... these, they have used their brand premium power to kill all domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

But when the Super Pear came out, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung... they completely stepped down from the altar.

Everyone is no longer so obsessed with the brand power of these foreign mobile phone manufacturers.

At least, above them, many people know that there is a super pear.

Moreover, smartphones were invented by Huanyu Technology and have nothing to do with Nokia and others.

Speaking of which, Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung are also eating the leftovers of Huanyu Technology.

In this case, why should we buy these foreign mobile phone brands?

then……

Next, you'll see.

A number of foreign mobile phone giants that had been regrouping once again encountered a brutal attack in the domestic market.

only.

This time, Huanyu Technology was not involved.

However, the sniper attack without the participation of Huanyu Technology did not affect the performance of domestic mobile phone manufacturers at all.

In their first smart phone competition with foreign mobile phone giants, they made a wonderful turnaround.

"Guys, we're having trouble in the Chinese market."

"Indeed."

"Damn, how did those Chinese mobile phone manufacturers become so competitive all of a sudden?"

"It's not that they are competitive, it's just that smartphones are a brand new battlefield."

Nokia, Motorola, Samsung... and other mobile phone leaders gathered together.

It’s nothing more than being defeated by Huanyu Technology.

Anyway, Huanyu Technology is a monster, and they don’t want to compete with Huanyu Technology anymore.

But Huanyu Technology couldn't win here. At this time, even domestic mobile phone manufacturers that they had never taken a look at before, they found that there seemed to be nothing they could do against them.

Not only is there nothing we can do about them, but looking at the current market, the market share of these global mobile phone manufacturers has been squeezed to the edge.

This is unacceptable to them.

"The main issue is price."

"Yes, many mobile phone manufacturers in China have raised the price to 1,899. Compared with our price of around 3,000, consumers may want to consider it no matter how much they like our brand."

"They don't make any money from a smartphone for 1,899."

"They didn't even think about making money."

People in charge of mobile phones have been analyzing the strategies of mobile phone manufacturers in China from time to time.

When they mentioned that they had never considered making money, everyone was shocked.

This reminded them of Huanyu Technology's previous play style.

Previously, Huanyu Technology relied on a strategy of not wanting to make money, and then crazily seized the market.

Unexpectedly, this style of play was actually learned by them.

"We're in for a tough fight."

"Um."

"Everyone, if you have any ideas, let's look into it together."

Everyone is a big boss in the industry, and they know more about mobile phones than anyone else.

In fact, they also know why they are in such a situation.

This is a completely new battlefield for smart phones.

In this battlefield, their brand cannot play a role, and their production line does not have many advantages.

The cost of their various accessories is also very high, no less than that of many Chinese mobile phone manufacturers.

Even, strictly speaking, the purchase prices of their smartphone accessories are higher than those of domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

For example, like a screen.

Not all mobile phone manufacturers have LCD production lines.

For example, like the glass screen of a mobile phone.

Even if you have an LCD production line, you may not produce mobile phone glass.

There are also mobile phone chips, smartphone operating systems, various sensors, and manufacturing processes...

etc.